Audio engineers and music producers looking for a main mixbus compressor should check out the MIA Laboratories 925 Compressor MkII main-mix compression software plug-in that's designed using physical modeling. The characteristic dynamic response stems from the sidechain detection stage, which is based on an analog envelope detector circuit.
The high speed of this compressor's detector allows it to follow the actual waveform instead of the envelope of the program material, which produces a more natural sounding compression effect. The variable knee includes a Slope/Ratio mode, which changes the 925's compression curve, resulting in completely different character and dynamic response. The plug-in includes 29 carefully tuned presets. The 925 Compressor MKII is Windows and Mac compatible and works with most DAWs utilizing AAX, AU, VST, and VST3 plug-in formats.
- Detection based on the analog envelope-detector circuit
- Highly optimized dynamic response
- 29 MIA presets
- Variable-knee response
- Slope/Ratio mode selection
- Specially developed damping control for smoothing and fine-tuning the detector's response
- Side-chain filtering
- Band compression
- Dry/wet control